“The weekend cutover went exactly as planned, and our employees were able to come to work on Monday with Office 365 up and running. The migration was seamless and simple and has achieved our primary objective of improving our collaboration systems and staying closely connected and integrated with the other bottlers. We are a growing company and moving to Office 365 with the help of ... and InfraScience has been advantageous for us in many ways.”
Founded in 1902, CCBCU is one of 200 Coca-Cola bottlers around the world, including 70 bottlers in North America. It is the third largest bottler of Coca-Cola products in the United States. The company was running IBM Notes and Domino, along with Notes applications, but needed to move to a common platform to better align and collaborate with the more than 250,000 contacts in the Coca-Cola family worldwide. Additionally, the company wanted to maintain coexistence with Notes applications, Blackberry support in the cloud, and Microsoft Lync migration from IBM Sametime.
The migration of user mailboxes and 2 terabytes of data to a hybrid Office 365 environment while maintaining coexistence for Notes applications had to be completed over one weekend and ensure no disruption to end user productivity. Working with us, InfraScience and Microsoft, employees finished work on Friday using Notes, and returned on Monday to use Office 365 Outlook. Our automated solutions delivered a significant return on investment, and the migration allowed for a reduced cost of ownership, better uptime and less day-to-day administration. A simple end-user learning curve was an added bonus that saved both time and money for CCBCU.
Migrator for Notes to Exchange and Coexistence Manager for Notes are part of our portfolio of ZeroIMPACT migration and consolidation solutions that efficiently move and restructure user accounts, data and systems without impacting users or business productivity. End users remain productive, with full access to mailboxes, calendars, directories, free/busy information and public folders throughout the migration. This seamless coexistence eliminates the need for migration tasks after business hours and also reduces administrator workload.